Outline Of The Oklahoma City Bombing

In the airports, Muslim people became “the usual suspects”, were thoroughly searched and often interrogated. In her article, O’Connor claims that the lives of American Muslims changed forever, and the statement is hard to disagree with (“How 9/11 Changed These Muslim Americans’ Lives Forever.”) Those who had nothing to do with the September 11 attacks, their children and grandchildren were sentenced to face racism, hate and violence.

After a horrible terroristic attack that shocked the whole world on September 11th in the center of New York City, Muslims in the Western world have been constantly fighting against prejudice. After September 11, media interest in Islam increased, where Islam was usually portrayed in a negative way. Before 9/11, many Muslims lived the normal, everyday life. However, the attack has changed lives of many people that belonged to the Muslim community, where they were the victims of guilt. Unfortunately, many Americans were introduced to Islam, after the 9/11 attack, thus even till today, Islam is associated with terrorism. For the past ten years, Muslims felt excluded from the American society by being rifled, attacked, discriminated, checked

In the 12 years since the terrorist attacks on the world trade towers in New York city, thousands of hours of research and interviews has been conducted, scores of books have been written, and countless documentaries and films have been produced in an effort to help us understand how and why terrorists were able to carry out the massacre of nearly 3500 people. Despite the plethora of religious and nonreligious beliefs represented by the friends and family of those who died, one universal belief binds them all: the belief that an unspeakable act of cruelty has changed our nation and our people for all time. The name ascribed to this act of terrorism is debated widely. Some call it evil. Others call it nothing more than supreme cruelty.

Muslims were being targeted by the government after 9/11 , they had been basically been treated

The terrorist responsible for this attack is Timothy McVeigh. Months before the bombing, McVeigh, along with his accomplice Terry Nichols, was believed to be involved in an “anti-government militia group” (Casey 3). McVeigh believed the government was devising a plan to deprive him and as well as the rest of his country of their rights as Americans to bear arms (Casey).

The Oklahoma City bomb is labled as a terrorist attack. Leaving over 168 dead, an hundreds more injured. Timothy James McVeigh was also an American citizen. This man never travled outside the United States for any type of traning nor learning.

On April 19, 1995 the world was thrown into shock. Terrorism was not a thing in the United States. It was even more of a shock to find out this terrorist was a resident of the United States. Not only did this tragedy effect the hundreds of people inside the Oklahoma City Murrah building, it also affected billions of rescue workers, families, and loved ones. All the different groups of people affected by this bomb copped in very different ways.

A 2006 Today/Gallup poll found that 44% of Americans had the perception that all Muslims were too extreme in their religious beliefs and 22% of the respondents would not want a Muslim as a neighbor. Islamophobia in America skyrocketed as a result of the 9/11 attacks and changed the way that Muslim-Americans and other Americans were able to interact with one another. These statistics show that there was significant fear of Muslims in the years after 9/11. In the years following the attacks, the number of hate crimes against Muslims in America spiked and have not dropped to pre-attack levels since. As Graph 1 shows, in 2001, there were a reported 481 hate crimes and majority of these would have occurred in the months following September. Although

The sentiment for anti-Islamic feeling has persisted since the attack on the world trade Center and has never fully dissipating (Gray, 2013). A Saudi student that was injured in the blast was tackled by another bystander and labeled by the New York Post as the suspect for the blasts (Gray, 2013). A former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh even recommended that the U.S. begins profiling “our enemy… young Muslim men” (Gray, 2013). The hashtag #Muslims trended on Twitter on the day of the bombing because so many people were immediately blaming the Muslim population (Gray, 2013). A poll that Western New England University released found that 73% of Massachusetts residents believe that the terrorist attack changed the city of Boston in a lasting way (Tuthill, 2014). 62% said that the change in Boston was for the better (Tuthill, 2014). Many people in the city of Boston have agreed that the people have felt a surge in civic pride and a feeling of unity within the city (Tuthill, 2014). The protection for the 2014 Boston Marathon had more than double last year’s number of police officers at 3,500 (Tuthill, 2014). The 2014 Boston Marathon also had restrictions on the types of bags that spectators and runners could bring

America’s viewpoint on the Muslim group of people was significantly prejudiced by post 9/11. The entire Muslim community was vision negatively as of the events that was taken by Al Qaeda an international terrorist group formed by Osama Bin Laden. Soon, subsequent to the bombing of the twin towers, primary awareness of Muslims habitually originated from labels relating to the Middle East as a whole. According to “Affective Politics after 9/11” Todd Hall proposed that 9/11 was a sensitively prominent event that created an emotional shock wave. He believed the original place of influence were the countless effective reaction of people in the United States who has watched the series of terrorist attacks unfold and causes Americans to view Muslims

Most, many people when they think of terrorist think about people from the middle east. I have no clue why but when terrorism events happen the increase of stereotypes grow and with that racism increases. After events like this stereotype start to rise and People usually Americans, even make fun of the middle eastern religion. For example, after the twin tower attack on September 11, 2001. Middle Eastern people were automatically to blame just because they looked like the person piloting the plane. Even Muslims were to blame when all Muslims do is promote peace, but there is always those Extreme radicalistic from the Muslim religion that stands out, and everyone assumes all Muslims are extremist. But if humans take things in perspective the first terrorist in America was Christopher Columbus he nearly killed 4 million people in four years. He did it legally in some people's eyes (Cook). Hate crimes will also increase because people want to attack the group that "did" the

September 11th holds many hard and upset feelings around the world today. The harsh actions of Muslim extremists unfortunately completely changed the way Muslims are treated, especially in the United States. These events, exacerbated islamophobia. Unfortunately, “the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, connect Muslims and Islam to terrorism within the geographical borders of the United States.” (Byng) Although it has been over a decade since the attack, many still feel racist and discriminatory attitudes towards Muslims. Muslims are the targeted minority in the United States, “the 9/11 terrorist attacks shifted the social and political context for Muslims in the United States. Terrorism within the geographical borders of the United States carried out by Muslims places an identity at the center of national and global politics.” (Byng) The blame of the horrible terrorist attacks, rather than be placed on terrorists or religious extremist, has been placed on Islam in America. After September 11th, hate crimes towards Muslims skyrocketed, “the most dramatic change noted by the report was a more than 1,600 percent increase in reported hate crimes against Muslims -- a jump from 28 hate incidents in 2000 to 481 last year.”

Muslims faced tremendous amounts of prejudice after the September 11th attacks. The September 11th attacks were four coordinated attacks perpetrated by the terrorist group known as Al Qaeda. These attacks killed 2,996 people and injured more than 6,000 innocent people. These terrorist attacks also contributed to the fear that we now know as Islamophobia.

As a result of Islamophobia; there were a lot of reports of assaults, attacks on mosques and other hate crimes against Muslims last years, . Muslims have been shot and killed, execution-style, in their living room, and outside of their mosques. They have

Ever since the start of September 11, 2001, Muslims around the world and in the United States have been targeted, taken to war, murdered,